Domestic terrorist threat and research limitations -- Approaches to the study of terrorism -- Social network analysis and the study of terrorism -- The study : white supremacist group networks and lethality -- The players : biographies of core groups of the study -- Findings: social network analysis -- Findings : regression analysis of network characteristics -- Findings : regression analysis of group attributes -- Discussion and conclusion.
Summary
Acts of terrorism committed by domestic extremists outnumber those committed by international actors. White supremacist groups are linked to a considerable number of these terrorist acts. Although part of the same movement, certain groups appear to pose a greater threat than others in that they are linked to a greater number of ideologically motivated homicides. Caspi investigated whether a group's location within its network accounted for this phenomenon. Interestingly, this preliminary study suggests that an association between network location and threat of extreme violence does exist. This.
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